@ ral-clan
they look great! how long did they take to render on your miggy ??
also, can you list your screen modes for LW5 as I'm having issues with a fresh install of OS3.9 on my 1200.
I'm running it under WinUAE, actually, emulating an A4000 (AGA) under OS3.9. So I'm sure the render times are equivalent to an 060, maybe faster? It takes about a minute to render a frame at medium resolution with medium anti-aliasing turned on. I haven't turned on shadow ray tracing yet, so maybe it will take longer then.
As for the screen modes. Lightwave Layout starts up in a native PAL Hi-Res Laced screenmode by default (it even seems to do this on NTSC systems) - so there shouldn't be any trouble there. Did you delete your PAL video driver from Workbench? Maybe that is causing your problem.
I then switch Layout over to 800x600 screenmode 8-colours most of the time, although it can also do 1024x768 (or whatever that screenmode is). These higher resolution screenmodes are promoted to RTG with NewMode screen promoter (I really had to play around with NewMode to get it to work).
The key when promoting Lightwave Layout RTG screenmodes is that you must tell your mode promoting software to remember the screen NOT BY ITS NAME, but my the resolution and other identifying features (NewMode has this ability). This is because Lightwave Layout generates all sorts of different screens when you change Layout's resolution, render in different resolutions, to HAM-8 or HAM-6 or RTG, etc. AND it calls all these screens "Lightwave" which confuses your mode promoter. Again, I've only ever tried NewMode and can report it works. You've also got to tell your mode promoter software remember to NOT promote HAM-8 or HAM-6 or other native screenmodes Lightwave occasionally uses.
Lightwave of course can display rendered screens in Native HAM-8, which looks good enough most of the time. But I also have a piece of software called CyberGraphics Renderer installed (are you an English Amiga Board user? Zone?). This plugin allows Lightwave rendered images to an RTG screenmode (full 24-bits, etc.). I think probably what this plugin does is save a 24-bit IFF to a temporary buffer then call up an small RTG image viewer. Anyway, it works well. If you are an AREXX programmer you might be able to write something which would fulfill a similar function using your favourite image viewing software (i.e. the viewer software is running in the background and once it detects a new image Lighwave generated IFF in the temporary buffer location it loads it, displays it, and makes itself the foremost display screen).
Lightwave Modeller in version 5 is sort of RTG friendly. It will natively allow you to use a couple of different RTG resolutions without too much complaint - although I've found that you must stick to 4:3 ratio screenmodes or else things get stretched horizontally - which messes up your ability to do accurate modelling.
I can't see why any of the above cannot be done on a real hardware Amiga (indeed, I had Lightwave running on my real A2000/040 up until 2008). Render times will of course be slower.